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hands of long pruners. Indeed, in some works it 

 is recommended to suppress them as much as 

 possible. This is a great error ; for other writers, 

 such as Knight and Dubreuil, recommend their 

 careful preservation, wherever found at all possible; 

 and in the works of such masters of close pruning 

 as Professor Gressent, of Orleans, and M. Grin, of 

 Chartres, the main dependance for fruit is placed 

 on Class 5, which is well known, moreover, to 

 produce the finest specimens. Very close prun- 

 ing, such as is well suited to orchard-house trees, 

 rarely fails to develope Classes 5 and 7 in great 

 abundance, especially in the case of established 

 trees, Though all the classes of this division occur 

 under every form of training, they are peculiarly 

 the result of that sudden concentration of the sap, 

 during the period of its greatest ascent, at the 

 base of the shoot, which is produced by judicious 

 summer-stopping. In some mysterious way an 

 obstacle is created, which appears to concentrate 

 the cambium in the cellular tissue near the base of 

 the nascent bud, and by this retarded circulation 

 to produce eventually a cluster of blossom-buds, 

 which are eminently fruitful. It is not, however, 

 pretended that late summer-stopping would be 

 so successful. 



